Phase effect and symmetry on pair production in spatially inhomogeneous frequency chirping electric fields

TL;DR

This study investigates how the carrier envelope phase and frequency chirping influence electron-positron pair production in spatially inhomogeneous electric fields, revealing periodic, symmetric, and parameter-sensitive effects on particle yield and momentum spectra.

Contribution

It uncovers new symmetry properties and phase-dependent behaviors in pair production under chirped fields, with detailed analytical explanations of these phenomena.

Findings

Interference effects and particle number vary periodically with phase.

Larger chirping increases the pair production rate.

Symmetries in momentum spectra are identified and explained.

Abstract

Effect of the carrier envelop phase on the electron-positron pair production is studied in spatially inhomogeneous electric field with symmetrical frequency chirping. In high or low original frequency field without chirping as well as one with chirping, we find that the strength of interference effect of the momentum spectrum and the reduced particle number are all changeable periodically with phase, in particular, these periodical changes are more sensitive to the applied parameters in case of low frequency field. At the small spatial scale, the reduced particle number change is over one order magnitude by phase in small chirping. For the reduced particle number, the different optimal phases are obtained at different spatial scales, however, the larger the chirping is applied, the higher the created pair number is got. Interestingly, some different types of symmetries, i.e., the mutual symmetry of mirror/coincidence for two correlated phases and the individual self symmetry for single phase, are unfolded on the momentum spectrum. The physical reason of the mutual symmetry between two correlated phases and also the individual symmetry for two fixed specific phases are examined and discussed analytically in detail. The combined roles by phase and chirping on the periodic and symmetrical behaviors of the momentum spectrum and the reduced particle number are expected to have the potential extension to more fields such as that with multidimensional spatial coordinate.